The CEO of Seat and president of the Anfac automotive employers’ association, Wayne Griffiths, has urged the Government to launch at least before the elections the call for new aid with European funds in the second part of the Automotive Perte to decide whether to extend or No investments in Spain.
“It is very important for us because we have to make important decisions about investments and they depend on the aid of this Perte,” he told a group of journalists after investing in the annual meeting of the Cercle d’Economía.
The Minister of Industry, Héctor Gómez, has transferred to Griffiths that the call will take place in the month of June regardless of the electoral advancement, as the CEO of Seat has implied, who urges that this commitment be fulfilled. “My information is that it does not affect. The preparation was well advanced and I hope it comes out before the elections,” he declared in Barcelona. Gómez’s predecessor, Reyes Maroto, promised the call for the first quarter but she could not get it out on those dates before leaving the Ministry.
Seat intends to expand its already large investment program of 10,000 million euros in Spain by hundreds of millions if it obtains aid from the second attempt of the so-called Perte VEC, that of the electric and connected vehicle. Its goal now is to expand its Martorell facilities in Catalonia with a “battery assembly” factory. “It would be like a new factory within a factory,” he has described.
More generally, the president of the automotive employers’ association has warned of the danger that the electoral advancement will not lead to a quick government afterwards. He has called for “a new government as soon as possible so that we do not enter into a greater period of uncertainty.” He has lamented that “time is already wasting” with the automotive sector, alluding to the low support of the Government for the sale of electric vehicles and for deploying charging points throughout the country.
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